Robert Fitzpatrick (FBI)

Robert "Bob" Fitzpatrick (1940-) was an FBI agent in Boston who assisted in the downfall of Irish Mob boss Whitey Bulger.

Biography
Robert Fitzpatrick was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1940, and he became an FBI agent, rising to become second-in-command of the FBI's Boston office. Fitzpatrick claimed that he found the rifle that James Earl Ray had used to assassinate Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, that he  personally arrested Patriarca crime family underboss Jerry Angiulo, and that he personally urged his superiors to drop Whitey Bulger as an informant in 1982. He co-authored a 2012 book on the downfall of Bulger, and helped the victims of Bulger in wrongful death suits against the government, which had allowed for Bulger to be an FBI informant. However, when he testified at Bulger's 2013 trial, he fabricated his credibility on FBI corruption and government misconduct, leading to him being convicted of perjury and being sentenced to 6-7 years in prison and a $12,500 fine, ending his FBI career.